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(serena williams/terrible opinions/wtf) Serena Williams As Victim Diminishes Her Greatness
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this is from the guy who wrote this
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She complains about being ranked No. 2 in the world when she's not bitching on Twitter or her blog about new rules that forbid Wimbledon players from eating in the locker room.
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Seriously, how else can Serena fill out her size 16 shorts without grazing at her stall between matches?
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I'm only knocking Serena's back pack because it's preventing her from reaching her full potential as an athletic icon.
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I am not fundamentally opposed to junk in the trunk, although my preference is a stuffed onion over an oozing pumpkin.
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(A stuffed onion is a booty so round and tight that it brings tears to your eyes).
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what the shit
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this after that gross poll for "best sportsperson of 2015" that put her against a god damn horse
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what the actual fuck
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there were like 10 nominees and I think she and American Pharaoh were the final two, but it was p unfortunate that it fell that way
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(I wanted Steph Curry to win v(unsure)v)
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but idk how "people noticing sexism/racism as it apples to Serena" stops her from being a competitive athlete
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what is so terrible about a theoretical world without racism and sexism?
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are these things really the spice of life?
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why is american pharoah even in the running, if they're calling it sportsperson
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it hasn't always been a person
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they play it pretty loosely. the kc royals were also one of the nominees. but it's like time's man of the year.
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except without hitler ever winning, I suppose.
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it's stupid but it's an established history of stupid, I guess, that I do not believe was established solely for the purpose of comparing Serena Williams to a horse, unlike this journalist
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who has been all about that for years
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i hit the words safe space fascism and noped out pretty quick
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fascism is just a word for "things I personally disagree with" don't you know
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i couldn't finish his old article because it was so gross
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the "she's too lazy to achieve what she wants" is such racist bullshit I just
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holy fuck
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which, i recognize that he's black but he's clearly internalized some stuff :/
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he's pretty famous for race bating
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*baiting
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He's got a weird beef with Ta-Nehisi Coates
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That actually makes sense, considering what views they both have.
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Like I can see him being opposed to Coates pretty easily.
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It's not just that
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reportedly he tried to hire Coates for his big project (for triple his current salary) and Coates turned him down
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specifically because Coates didn't want to work for Whitlock, so now Whitlock says mean things about Coates on twitter
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The 10,000 word exposés on this story are an example of the good deadspin but I'm still not linking deadspin on principle
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i opened the link
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though I might save it for tomorrow.
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I'm shocked I've never heard of this guy.
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we already established you are unlearned in the ways of hot takes
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yes
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i agree with people who are like 'dude can write, but his views are too fucking problematic"
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because he ... can ... but it's obvious that he's decided to be contrary to a cultural movement to stand out.
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I think it is possible he genuinely believes what he says
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he might be embellishing a bit for the purpose of hot takes but I always prefer to take people I disagree with at their word
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like it's a given that a sportswriter personality is embellished for effect but it's pretty cynical to assume that the entire stance is a calculated branding ploy.
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Yeah I guess I was hoping, but it does make sense ... To a degree, Oprah pushed (past tense) similar but less grating views
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And I can see why he'd look to someone like her and develop his views as a young journalist, albeit in a more inflammatory way
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there are a lot of black people who buy into respectability politics
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there's a reason there's a push back
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oh wait go rimbaud I just actually read about the poll thing (I'd previously avoided b/c I didn't want to read the comments)
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and what happened was the LA Times ran a separate poll (independent of SI) about whether Serena deserved it or a horse deserved it, because horse fans are Upset
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yeah i went and read up on context after this plurk, cos i'd only seen the tweets before
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so, that's definitely way more sketch, since… SI named like 10 finalists, but the poll was just two
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like i hadn't even read the first link first to realize whitlock's article is a direct response to the l.a. times thing
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Serena Williams vs Messi vs Steph Curry vs KC Royals vs American Pharaoh for what is basically "best sports story of year" award isn't that awful imo
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but also like, the absolute worst response
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artificially narrowing that down to Serena vs Horse is
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another thing
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well horse fans were apparently pretty mad
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though it could be that it's more about the horse supporters being mad on the internet
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which
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get a life, horse folks…
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but horse fans are possibly also dumb
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yeah
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also this is a terrible response no matter what
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but yeah it apparently all came out of horse fans being mad, because the horse won a reader poll
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oh
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lmao
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and how dare a reader poll not be the only one that matters
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well it makes sense because as established the horse fans care the most on the internet
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I am kind of disappointed in KC Royals fans though, after they destroyed the All Star Game voting
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or maybe I just have a newfound "respect" for horse fans
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but yeah, some of it is a lack of context on si's contest, but also just headlines discussing that reaction being way tone-deaf
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idea: maybe things should not be decided based on internet polls
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l.a. times did post an apology for it and change the headline though
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yeah, seems like a combination of different groups being awful
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to varying degrees
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and whitlock apparently continuing to be whitlock
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I haven't felt inclined to search out the worst of horse twitter b/c I am pretty sure it would be very easy to find racist/sexist anti-serena comments there
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then again I read all that whitlock
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i did too
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enough for a lifetime
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I lied I'm reading the pro-horse commentary
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there's definitely some gross stuff mixed in but a lot of it is standard entitled whining about fan polls
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Once again, Thoroughbred horse racing has been denied by mainstream sports media.
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poor oppressed horse sports
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check ur human privilege
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the horse is still more likely to get a biopic deal
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which is hecked up
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yeah the idea that horses are more discriminated against in more meaningful ways than woc is
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like
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well that's what makes this so fun
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also yes I am pretty sure the award given out by SI is, in fact, chosen by the editors of SI & not online poll
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I for one am upset there were no cats on the poll
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as someone on the internet I would have liked to vote for a cat
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how long do horses live, because it's clear all of these horses are too young to remember the 2000 election
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lmao SI even said "editors will choose the award, but fans can have their say by voting in this poll" & then they named AP the official fan choice poll winner
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but it's being treated as a huge conspiracy
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by horse fans who do not know how to internet
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when have reader polls ever mattered in final decisions
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a magazine is not a democracy
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right? the award was never not chosen by the editors
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it has a long history of not being decided by popular vote
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to the degree that internet polls are actually that
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They just obviously feel like horses have no feelings or personality, and would be embarrassed if a horse beat all of their precious human athletes. Ugh.
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how dare you bring facts into this, obviously you're just trying to piss people off!!
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precious human athletes
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